From the pavement of the Sphinx.

Today is the earliest sunset of the year in the northern hemisphere. Summer is coming

Zoe Blackstedt won gold at the U23 time trial at the World Cycling Championships this week.

A series of photos from Gilbert’s Pit in Charlton. A pair of hands holds a slab of the Woolwich Shell Bed, an iron oxide rich clay packed with white fossil shells

A series of photos from Gilbert’s Pit in Charlton. The Blackheath Beds, pavked with well rounded, black flint pebbles forms the top of the section at Gilbert’s Pit

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Valverde with his half turn not very brave.

I was at Fulham great match.

Pakistan’s 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy - CleanTechnica Pakistan’s solar boom, EV rise, and climate action signal a historic shift from fragility to clean tech leadership across Asia’s most unexpected energy frontier.

Saw this amazing news from Pakistan

cleantechnica.com/2025/04/04/p...

An upward reassessment of Diana and Unity Mitford would perfectly fit the times.

Wasn't he in 'The Americans'. Might explain things.

Wasn't aware that many American homes are basically made of wood with only the chimney stack made of inflammable brick or concrete . Los Angeles is essentially a giant bonfire.

Got triple time and £3000 one off payment for suppotting across the flip into 2000 . Nothing went wrong but we had spent 10000 man hours making sure everything worked. It was not until 2018 when people born on 1/1/2000 tried to book that a bug was found.

Danny Finkelstein at the Times but Times editorials drifting right.

He thinks there should be no immigration into the USA except for people like him (from South Africa) in US tech industry and his DOGE chum Vivek. Fallen out with extreme right over this who think that Elon's right to get extremely rich on the back of immigrants conflicts with extreme populism.

Company I use for cycling holidays in France transfers clients bikes out and back to UK. Due to custom carnet error I had just had a home visit from the HMRC. Why customs are worried about this I have no real idea, I am on holiday not smuggling bikes. £60 charge to the company.

Suspect Mrs. Assad would rather be in one of the Gulf States than facing a Moscow winter

Badenoch bombs, Farage invited to join Conservatives to lead their party in the next election . Entirely possible.

Have your iron levels checked.

Surprising in a country where you have your shopping packed at the checkout and an enormous number of people serve in restaurants.

I used to work on an oil rig in Viking , 200 miles NE of Shetland. Oddly missed most of the extreme storms, the best weather was when it was very occasionally dead calm and massive shoals of cod gathered safely under the platform.

Hieronymous Bosch I think. Thought women were the source of evil.

Car mechanics, a large source of jobs for less academic school leavers, vulnerable with there being no clutches, cooling systems, oil changes, exhausts etc. Electrical skills will be valuable but suspect there will be a lot of diagnose and replace.

Owners not interested in season ticket holders. We turn up five minutes before kick off leave rapidly, don't visit the shop, don't spend much. They want long distance tourists flying in from around the world buying a £100s of stuff from the shop.

Isn't the pension rise based on salaries going to be usefully higher than inflation?

Search for 'Coastway Will". He has a starter pack pinned for rail transport.

What is anticyclonic gloom and why is it making the UK so grey? Elizabeth Rizzini looks at why our weather is so gloomy at the moment and ponders when things might change.

Zero minutes of sunshine so far this November for most of the British Isles. Northern Scotland in lee of mountains the only area with sunny weather, rest of us suffering from 'anticyclonic gloom'.

Some hope that an Atlantic front will clear the sky on Sunday.

www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Biden likely to have won in 2016.

Fantastic museum next to Solnhofen railway station. Trains every hour from Munich or Nuremberg . Took about 90 minutes from Munich and 30 minutes from Nuremberg (it trundles along stopping at all stations). Eichstätt Castle museum with its Solnhofen collection is a couple of stops away.

A horseshoe crab from the 149 million year old Solnhofen Limestone, Bavaria. Label suggested this is where a crab molted its shell. Note the faint track below.

Horseshoe crabs great survivors, essentially unchanged from their debut in the Triassic.

Lot of 'wishcasting' going on. By the way have has anyone heard from the foolproof Iowa pollster who had Harris up by three points?

Is that ex-Atlantuc basin hurricane Nadine?